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Activity Digest — 2026-04

Patrick in Montreal Study Group: 2026 Spring Cohort — 2026-04-03

Source: https://practice.baseworks.com/news-feed/p/403/

Session Schedule and Preparation Guide

Hey Everyone,

We’ve also just sent an email to everyone with your first Primer assignment and other details before Saturday. If you haven’t seen it yet, please check your inbox.

Here is the full session schedule with times and studio numbers:

Session 1 — Saturday, April 4 | 9:10–10:50 AM | Studio 1 Session 2 — Saturday, April 11 | 1:10–2:50 PM | Studio 2 Session 3 — Saturday, April 18 | 9:10–10:50 AM | Studio 2 Session 4 — Saturday, April 25 | 9:10–10:50 AM | Studio 1 Session 5 — Saturday, May 2 | 12:10–1:50 PM | Studio 1 Session 6 — Saturday, May 9 | 12:10–1:50 PM | Studio 2 Session 7 — Saturday, May 16 | 12:10–1:50 PM | Studio 2

All sessions are at Proto Studio, 11th Floor, 5333 Av. Casgrain, Montreal. The studio number varies by session, so please check which one before you arrive.

We’ve also put together a preparation guide that covers what to expect, how to prepare, what to bring, and venue details. We recommend reading through it before your first session: https://practice.baseworks.com/preparation-guide-sg/

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Patrick in Montreal Study Group: 2026 Spring Cohort — 2026-04-04

Source: https://practice.baseworks.com/news-feed/p/404/

Before This Morning — Waiver and Questionnaire

Quick follow-up to the email we sent on Thursday (“Before We Meet on Saturday — Your First Assignment and Everything You Need to Know”).

Two things before this morning:

Participation Waiver — if you haven’t completed it yet, we recommend that you please do so before you arrive. Participation in the study group requires a completed waiver as part of our standard policy. It also covers liability for the venue. It only takes a few minutes.

→ https://forms.gle/EpvusGE6MGGGCD6Z6

Participation Questionnaire — if you have a moment, filling this out before your session is helpful. When we have a better overview of everyone’s background, it helps us approach the material in the most effective way for the group.

→ https://practice.baseworks.com/members/me/background/

See you shortly.

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Patrick in Montreal Study Group: 2026 Spring Cohort — 2026-04-06

Source: https://practice.baseworks.com/news-feed/p/405/

Session 1 Summary & Assignment 2

Thank you all for a productive first session. The detailed summary covering everything we practiced and discussed — Distributed Activation, the four foundational forms, Natural Breathing, and the questions that came up — is now available here: https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/montreal-study-group-spring-2026-cohort/forum/discussion/session-1-summary-foundations-first-contact/#post-22186

Next Assignment (for Session 2, Saturday April 11, 1:10-2:50 PM, Studio 2): Complete Segment 3, Lessons 3.1-3.8. Total time: approximately 56 minutes.

This segment introduces the foci — the different dynamics that organize how the forms are practiced. You will also encounter new forms. As always, if you have questions as you work through the material, post them to the forum.

We will continue working with the forms from Session 1 alongside the new material. Every session builds on the previous one, and revisiting the same forms with more experience is how the practice develops.

To refer to all of your assignments, you can find them here: https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/montreal-study-group-spring-2026-cohort/forum/discussion/primer-assignments-2/#post-22127

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Nathalie Dore in Montreal Study Group: 2026 Spring Cohort — 2026-04-08

Source: https://practice.baseworks.com/news-feed/p/406/

I would like to connect with the lady from Cornwall. Do we have a study group roster?

Patrick — 2026-04-08

@nathalie.dore You would be talking about @marta ! From the group page where you posted this comment, there’s a members tab. If you’re on a small screen or your mobile, you might have to click the three dots to see it. Inside the members tab, you’ll see everybody that’s in the cohort. You can click the three dots on the side of that cohort and connect with anyone there!

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Patrick in Montreal Study Group: 2026 Spring Cohort — 2026-04-13

Source: https://practice.baseworks.com/news-feed/p/409/

Session 2 Summary and Assignment 3

The detailed summary of yesterday’s session is now available on the forum. It covers the trajectory of the program, the Converge and Ascend foci, the seven forms we practiced, and the questions raised in the discussion: https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/montreal-study-group-spring-2026-cohort/forum/discussion/session-2-summary-trajectory-converge-ascend/#post-22210

Next Assignment (for Session 3, Saturday April 18, 9:10-10:50 AM, Studio 2): Complete Segment 3, Lessons 3.9-3.14. Total time: approximately 43 minutes.

This segment covers the remaining foci — Inflect and Intent — and the relationship between Baseworks Focus and conventional exercise goals. Questions about the material can be posted to the forum.

Sessions 1 and 2 forms will continue alongside the new material introduced in Session 3. Smart Revisit is the primary tool for keeping earlier work active; the PrimerPrint curve on your dashboard shows the current ratio of new study to revisit.

The full list of Primer assignments for the program is here: https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/montreal-study-group-spring-2026-cohort/forum/discussion/primer-assignments-2/#post-22127

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Any Guay in Montreal Study Group: 2026 Winter Cohort — 2026-04-16

Source: https://practice.baseworks.com/news-feed/p/410/

merci merci merci !!!

I’ve completed the entire online program, and I’m happy to know that I’ll be able to keep watching the videos for several more months! I wanted to thank you once again for this fabulous course.

Basework isn’t a specific exercise or a rigid technique, but a way of inhabiting one’s body—almost philosophical, artistic, and scientific all at once—in any case embodied and sensitive, attentive and light at the same time, rigorous and free all at once. I found this course deeply moving and invigorating, a revolution in my life, a dynamic that has gently taken root, like a new grammar of daily life to which one simply wants to submit, in awe. The practice is not reserved solely for a sacred time (“the session”); it becomes a way of experiencing every moment: walking, waiting, carrying, breathing, listening, touching, washing, doing the dishes, writing.

A form of quiet lucidity: it is not a miracle method, but a way to live more consciously, to varying degrees, depending on what one is willing to invest in it. Not “how long will I practice?”, but rather “to what extent am I willing to be present in my own life?”.

This overturns a deeply ingrained belief of our time that self-development requires “extra time.” Here, we understand that it is rather a transformation of the quality of presence within the time already present in life, which inspires a form of honesty that is almost political: in a culture marked by immediacy (apps, instant gratification, rapid body optimization), this practice reintroduces a slower, more demanding, yet also more real sense of time. It has allowed me to reflect on my progress without guilt, but without illusion either.

Not everything is accessible with minimal effort, even though even the slightest sustained effort already yields results with BW. But reconfiguring one’s perception of the body, sensing micro-tensions one was unaware of, and permanently altering one’s way of moving or inhabiting a situation requires something else: repetition, time, and constant attention to move from understanding to embodiment. Understanding is not yet knowing. There is something very concrete, almost brutal, about this: reading, listening, conceptualizing—all of this remains superficial until the body has been transformed by repetition, by experience, by a certain form of sensory discipline.

I still have a lot of practice ahead of me before this becomes more natural—like a state of pure, embodied awareness. But I’m determined to get there.

I’m happy to know that I’ll be able to continue doing this through the videos, but also in person, starting next fall.

Any xx

Patrick — 2026-04-16

Any,

Thank you for this. You’ve articulated something that practitioners take much longer to put into words: the shift from “extra time” to a different quality of presence within the time already there. The move from understanding to embodiment through repetition, and the honesty you describe around what that actually requires, is precise.

One thought we wanted to share. This was posted to the group feed, which stays active for the cohort but isn’t searchable the way the forum is. Given the care in what you’ve written, we’d love for it to remain findable for practitioners coming to the material in the future.

Would you consider reposting it to the Primer community forum: https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/primer-community/forum/ as a topic? That space is open across cohorts, so your reflection could reach practitioners beyond the Winter group, and give others a place to share their own experiences in response.

If you’d rather keep it within the Winter Cohort, you could also repost it to the Cohort’s forum: https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/montreal-study-group-winter-2026-cohort/forum/ with whatever tags feel relevant to you. That way it stays searchable for the people who practiced alongside you, and they can build on it as their work continues.

Either direction is entirely up to you, and no pressure if you’d prefer to leave it where it is. We just didn’t want a reflection this rich to quietly slip off the feed.

Thank you again for your participation and for everything you’ve brought to the program.

Patrick ❤

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Patrick in Montreal Study Group: 2026 Spring Cohort — 2026-04-20

Source: https://practice.baseworks.com/news-feed/p/414/

Session 3 Summary and Assignment 4

The detailed summary of yesterday’s session is now available on the forum. It covers Torsion as a byproduct of joint stacking, the V-Sit and its shoulder-lead dynamic, Fixing-Separating-Isolating in the Lunge Extension, the new Square Cross Inflection, the Structure focus, and the questions raised in the discussion: https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/montreal-study-group-spring-2026-cohort/forum/discussion/session-3-summary-torsion-v-sit-and-square-cross-inflection/#post-22217

Assignment 3 (Segment 3, Lessons 3.9–3.14) was the closing block of Segment 3, covering the Inflect and Intent foci and the relationship between Baseworks focus and conventional exercise goals. That material carried directly into yesterday’s session, particularly the Cross Inflections and the rib-cage work in the Lunge Extension.

Next Assignment (for Session 4, Saturday April 25, 9:10–10:50 AM, Studio 1): Complete Segment 4. Total time: approximately 87 minutes.

This segment is longer and more detailed than the previous assignments. Spreading the work across the week rather than condensing it into the days before the session is recommended, as the point made in Sessions 2 and 3 about daily practice applies here as well.

Sessions 1–3 forms will continue alongside the new material introduced in Session 4. Smart Revisit is the primary tool for keeping earlier work active; the PrimerPrint curve on your dashboard shows the current ratio of new study to revisit.

Again, please find the full list of Primer assignments for the program here: https://practice.baseworks.com/groups/montreal-study-group-spring-2026-cohort/forum/discussion/primer-assignments-2/#post-22127

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